6.    Allegation of Slaying Order by the Primal Point
The tradition to the effect that “they [allegedly BÂBis] shall descend from the Green Isle [said to be Mazandaran] unto the foot of Zavra [said to be Teheran], and shall slay about twelve thousand of Turks”, ibid, P. 177, quoted by “the Tongue of the Kingdom”, and ascribed by him to the Primal Point, constitutes a glaring example of such unfounded and absurd accusations.

At the time the Primal Point was in Maku and not in Shiraz as erroneously reported by Gobineau. The source from which Gobineau derived his material for his report was “the Tongue of the Kingdom”, T.A. Vol. II, note A, P. 173, who, to quote Dr Browne in ibid, P. 187, “was bound to disparage and traduce in every possible way those [i.e. the BÂBis] whose object was nothing less than the complete overthrow of Islam and abrogation of its ordinances”, hence “his many unfounded and absurd accusations which he brings against them”.

Slaying of a soul is repugnant to the letter and spirit of the Bayan. Every effort is to be made to convert people to the BÂBi faith, but no violence is to be made. (Dr. Browne in J.R.A.S October 1880, PP. 927-928).

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